The signs are already there and will get worse if air traffic is severely curtailed... especially over the holidays.
Short term the Republicans can "claim" that they have voted to keep the government open but long term the party in power always suffers when the economy stalls out.
AI is already putting pressure on employment and private enterprise will take the blame.
Running for mommy-government's skirt will become very tempting (as it has in NYC).
The Dems have always dreamed of a return the glorious days of FDR's one-party rule by enlightened elites.
If we have another crash this may be their golden ticket.
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On the other hand, DJT & Friends seem to have profited nicely from their 'timing' of stock trades...before and after Trump's announcements of Tariffs...(see attached fact based article).
One thing Trump is truly gifted at...GRIFTING the American people...you, and every other MAGA, included...
Link: https://www.propublica.org/article/us-officials-stock-sales-trump-tariffs
Individual traders using call options don't outperform 97% of hedge funds without inside information.
quite another for DJT to bilk millions of other investors with his fore-warning to Family & Friends of looming Tariff announcements.
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/tech/billionaires-stock-sales-tariffs
...fringe Republicans (see MTG) and even Farmers agree...DJT produces only Havoc...not Progress...for Anyone.
Link: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-biden-administration-handed-over-a-strong-economy/
The tax benefits only begin to kick in next year.
Similarly, the foreign trade deal investments Trump has negotiated will take at least a year to yield any results.
Arguably, this is still Biden's economy
worsening polls demonstrate that the American public sees it that way.
otherwise.
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the need for higher interest rates by the FED in order to fight the Inflation you were railing about just a couple of posts ago...btw,...It Worked!!
Go buy some books on "Critical Thinking"...you'll be MUCH the better for it.
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your way already.
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...from 'Politifact'...YES...Biden was President through all of this...see 'ya...
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High inflation rates have bedeviled Joe Biden during much of his presidency. But in recent remarks, Biden expressed optimism that the U.S. has turned a corner in its effort to fight fast-rising prices.
"While we have more to do, inflation is down by two-thirds," Biden said during an Aug. 29 speech about lowering health care costs. "Inflation is now down close to 3%, the lowest among the world’s leading economies."
We’ve previously reported that parts of that statement are correct: Inflation is down by about two-thirds from its peak in summer 2022, and it currently measures just over 3% compared with prices one year earlier.
But does the U.S. have the lowest inflation rate among the world’s leading economies?
When we last addressed how the U.S. ranks internationally in inflation — in June 2022, at the height of U.S. inflation — we found that although inflation rose above pre-COVID-19 levels in every major economy around the world, inflation in the United States spiked higher than its most direct competitors.
Now, though, the United States is beating its competitors in lowering inflation. The U.S. has a lower inflation rate than any other member of the G-7 group of large economies. And among a broader group of advanced industrialized nations, only a few countries beat the United States’ inflation rate.
First, let’s look at the members of the G-7 — Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. (Current data is not available for Japan, so we’ll set it aside.)
For the first half of 2022, the U.S. had the highest inflation rate of any G-7 country. But in the most recent data, covering July 2023, that has reversed: The U.S. now has the lowest inflation of any G-7 country.
From February 2023 to June 2023, the U.S. was a close second to Canada for the G-7’s lowest inflation rate. Then, in July 2023, the United States edged slightly lower than Canada, sealing its lowest-in-the-G-7 status.
In July 2023, the United States’ 3.2% rate was better than Canada’s 3.3%, France’s 4.3%, Italy’s 5.9%, and Germany’s 6.2%, and it was half of the United Kingdom’s 6.4% rate.
Fact check: Biden says wages are up after being adjusted for inflation
The White House pointed PolitiFact to slightly different data compiled by its own Council of Economic Advisers that sought to iron out methodological differences in how different countries calculate inflation. But the conclusion aligned with our findings: After tracking higher than the other G-7 nations in early 2022, inflation in the U.S. now rests at the bottom of the G-7.
If you expand the field of economic rivals, the U.S. inflation rate continues to fare better.
The U.S. inflation rate is below the average for the G-20, a group of 20 nations with large economies. For June 2023, the most recent data available, the average inflation rate for G-20 nations was 5.5%.
The same holds if you look at members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which includes most European nations and selected large economies from the Americas, Asia and elsewhere.
Beyond the G-7 nations, the U.S. also boasts a lower inflation rate than such countries as Belgium, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.
Only a few OECD countries reported inflation rates lower than the United States’, including Denmark, Greece, Portugal, South Korea, Spain and Switzerland.
PolitiFact ruling
Mostly True
Biden said that current U.S. inflation is "the lowest among the world’s leading economies."
Starting in July 2023, the U.S. passed Canada for the lowest inflation among the G-7 countries.
Looking at the most recent data for a larger grouping of 30-plus large economies, the U.S. has one of the lowest inflation rates, but a few countries — Denmark, Greece, Portugal, South Korea, Spain and Switzerland — have lower inflation than the U.S. does.
We rate the statement Mostly True.
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Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/11/us-gas-price-inflation
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by COVID related Supply Chain disruptions, followed by Putin's Attack on Ukraine and rising Oil prices? Now go back and look at (perhaps for the first time) the economy, and inflation level left by Joe Biden for Donald Trump on Jan, 20, 2025.
Talk about a lack of Critical Thinking...just when you think you've plumbed the bottom...
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It increased inflation.
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I think last quarter GDP growth was about 4%. That is damn good.
conversations are WARY!
Tip for GOP: Governing requires effort.
that of millions more passersby in their cars will only grow when it comes time for the Mid-Term elections...
That 2:1 ratio in CA for Prop 50 was built with more than Democrat votes (46% of CA registered voters)...
I'm not saying you can't dishonestly move your responsibility to the other party by controlling narrative. Perhaps that is what you are counting on. After all, you aren't counting on the truth.
More importantly, most Americans are hoping the GOP will agree to restore the health care coverage that was cut in Big Beautiful Bill.
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Elections have consequences. Never had their been a more stupid group in the Dem leadership.
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